Associate Professor of Business Administration
Daniel C. Feiler is an associate professor at the Tuck School of Business in the Strategy & Management group. He is a behavioral scientist and his research explores the psychology of judgment and decision making and the role it plays in organizational behavior and management science. He has won paper and presentation awards at the Academy of Management conference, Behavioral Decision Research in Management conference, and Max Planck Institute for Human Development summer conference. His work has received popular press coverage in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, New York Magazine, Mic, and Fast Company, among others. Drawing on his expertise in behavioral science, he teaches a popular MBA elective course, Negotiations. He was selected by the Tuck MBA Class of 2015 for the Excellence in Teaching Award, representing the first time a junior faculty member was selected for that award at Tuck. In 2017, he was selected as one of the Top 40 Business School Professors Under 40 years old by Poets and Quants. His work has been published in Management Science and Psychological Science, as well as in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and Production and Operations Management. He is originally from Pittsburgh, PA and received his doctoral degree from Duke
Senior Fellow with the Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society
Liana is a Fellow with the Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society, focused on the intersection of innovation, energy and climate solutions. Partnering with the Magnuson Center, she is working to launch an accelerator for start-ups addressing climate change and the energy transition. Her role is to help build an ecosystem around climate innovation by partnering internally across Dartmouth and externally with leading entrepreneurs, corporations, thinkers, capital providers, and alumni. Liana has worked with many sustainable start-ups through her work with Greentown Labs, Techstars, and other accelerators. She teaches "Sustainable Marketing" at the Tuck School of Business and University of Texas McCombs School of Business. Earlier in her career, Liana was a technology executive. She was one of the founders of dell.com and helped build Dell's ecommerce channel into a multi-billion-dollar business. She became the general manager of Dell's ecommerce channel and was responsible for digital innovation globally. Post- Dell, she was on the leadership team of several technology start-ups, focused on creating new markets or taking advantage of market shifts. Liana is a Dartmouth and Tuck alumna.
Academic Director for the Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society
Amanda Graham is the Academic Director for the Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society at Dartmouth College. In this role, her priorities are to engage all members of the Dartmouth community, to expand understanding of the fundamental roles energy systems play in society, and to partner with students, faculty, and alumni to evolve those systems toward a more just and sustainable world. Prior to Dartmouth, Amanda served in several roles at MIT, including Executive Director of the Environmental Solutions Initiative and Education Director for the MIT Energy Initiative. At MIT she led the development of multidisciplinary curricula and co-curricula in energy studies and environment and sustainability, including undergraduate minors, programs for first-year and graduate students, and intensive educational experiences with international students. Amanda is a founding member of the Committee on Energy, Equity, and Justice of the University Energy Institutes Coalition and a member of the organizing committee for the Community of Educators for Energy Transitions within the Global Council for Science and the Environment.
Program Manager of the Energy Justice Clinic, Irving Institute of Energy & Society
Sarah Kelly is a geographer with fifteen years of experience in community-based research on water and energy equity. As an applied researcher, she was trained in the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology at the University of Arizona. Sarah holds long-term research relationships with Mapuche-Williche communities in Chile, where she has investigated hydropower, cultural cartography, and Indigenous rights. In 2021, she co-founded the Energy Justice Clinic at Dartmouth College. Originally from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Sarah is excited to expand upon local collaborations in New Hampshire and Vermont to support making the energy transition more just and accessible for all. Sarah's research is published in Energy Policy, Energy Research and Social Science, and Geoforum, among other journals.
Revers Professor of Business Administration; Faculty Director, Revers Center for Energy, Sustainability and Innovation; Area Chair, Economics
Erin Mansur is an economist whose research focuses on topics of energy economics, environmental economics, and industrial organization. He teaches classes on energy economics. Current research examines the labor market implications of hydrofracturing, the environmental effects of electric cars, how natural gas prices affect electricity markets, and how mergers affect competition in electricity markets. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
Hodgson Family Assistant Professor of Engineering
Dr. Erin Mayfield is the Hodgson Family Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College in the Thayer School of Engineering. Her research is in the areas of sustainable systems engineering and public policy. Dr. Mayfield focuses on three interacting research themes - multiobjective modeling, intergenerational & social equity, and climate mitigation & adaptation planning. The aim of her research is to develop computational decision support tools to address real-world problems and facilitate multi-stakeholder decision-making processes.
Mayfield has participated in several large-scale collaborations on infrastructure transitions, including the Net-Zero America Project and the REPEAT Project, and currently serves as a co-author of the Fifth National Climate Assessment. Her research is regularly covered in national and local media such as the New York Times, The Atlantic, and National Public Radio. Mayfield has received several awards for her research such as the Rob Socolow Best Paper Award, American Chemical Society Editor's Choice Award, and the Herbert L. Toor Doctoral Research Award.
Prior to academia, Mayfield was a practitioner working with and in vulnerable communities on hazardous waste remediation, environmental litigation, and infrastructure planning. She has also held positions at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Congress, Princeton University, and Environmental Law Institute. She received her doctoral degree in engineering and public policy from Carnegie Mellon University, masters in environmental engineering from Johns Hopkins University, and bachelors in environmental science from Rutgers University.
Associate Professor of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College
My overarching research objective is to understand how and why climate has changed and identify trends and sources of air pollution. My specialty is creating long (50-50,000 years) records of climate change and air pollution by analyzing chemical markers preserved in glacier ice cores. I also study data from weather stations and climate models to determine recent climate trends to differentiate natural cycles from human-caused changes. I am particularly interested in aspects of climate change that impact communities, including sea-level rise from melting glaciers, and the changing number and intensity of storms.
CEO, NYCEEC
Curtis Probst is CEO of NYCEEC. He joined NYCEEC in April 2018 as its Co-CEO, and previously served on its Board since 2015. Curtis works with the entire NYCEEC team to implement its mission: to deliver financing solutions and advance markets for energy efficiency and clean energy in buildings. He is proud to help NYCEEC, the first local green bank in the US, pursue its vision: energy efficiency and clean energy financing for buildings to achieve scale and be accessible to all. Prior to joining NYCEEC, Curtis worked for over three years as a Managing Director at Rocky Mountain Institute, a global energy think tank, leading their sustainable finance practice. Curtis previously worked at Goldman Sachs for over 15 years, most recently as a Managing Director in their investment banking division. Before joining Goldman Sachs, Probst worked at Salomon Brothers for over eight years, most recently as a Vice President in their structured and project finance group. Curtis serves, or has served, on the boards of various organizations with an energy or environmental focus. Additionally, he has been an adjunct faculty member at Columbia University since 2016, lecturing on the topic of clean energy finance. He has spoken at numerous conferences in the United States, Canada and Europe, and authored or co-authored reports on different energy and financing topics. Curtis received a BComm from the University of Calgary and an MPA from Columbia University. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst, and a member of the CFA Institute.
Instructional Assistant Professor of Engineering, Dartmouth
Rafe Steinhauer is an instructional assistant professor of engineering at Dartmouth. His professional mission is to help people co-create more just, joyful, and sustainable societies. At Dartmouth, Rafe teaches sections of ENGS 12 - Design Thinking, and co-teaches ENGS 89/90, the BE capstone course. He is most interested in the future of higher education, and he started Range and Radar because he mentors several former students who, in their individual way, are grappling with common questions.
Nathaniel D’1906 and Martha E. Leverone Memorial Professor of Business Administration
Ron Adner is The Nathaniel D’1906 and Martha E. Leverone Memorial Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Prior to joining Tuck, he was the Akzo-Nobel Fellow of Strategic Management at INSEAD, where he served on the faculty for ten years. Dr. Adner’s award-winning research introduces a new perspective on the relationship between firms, customers, and the broader ‘innovation ecosystems’ in which they interact to create value. His book, The Wide Lens: What Successful Innovators See that Others Miss, has been heralded as a path-breaking guide to successful innovation in an interdependent world. Among other honors, it was named a Best Business Book of the Year by Strategy+Business. Dr. Adner has held editorial and board positions in the leading peer-reviewed academic journals of his field, including the Academy of Management Review, Management Science, the Strategic Management Journal, and Strategy Science. He has published numerous articles in these and other top academic journals. His managerial articles have been published in outlets including the Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, Fast Company, Forbes, Wired, The Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal.
Guest Lecturer
Professor Campagna balances consulting with global clients, volunteer work, and academic teaching. She is the President of BLUE SAGE Consulting, Inc. a certified women-owned management consulting firm founded in 1997, where she specializes in global strategy, business optimization & resource development. Prior to founding BLUE SAGE, Professor Campagna developed her craft during fifteen years of work in software and technology companies in marketing, sales, operations, business development, and consulting roles.
Professor Campagna contributes to the consulting profession as a board member and chair of the Marketing Committee of CMC-Global Institute, a virtual global community for professional management consultants. She is also a Certified Management Consultant (CMC®), representing global standards in consulting competencies, professional behavior, and ethics.
Professor Campagna believes that learning extends from the field into the classroom, and back again. She has taught and facilitated graduate, undergraduate, and executive education courses in marketing, leadership, sales management, business and communications, strategy, and project management in more than 750 corporate and educational settings, including Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College; Boston College’s Carroll School of Management; Northeastern University, Bryant University, and Boston University. She is currently a Professor of Practice at HULT International Business School in Cambridge, MA where she has been teaching leadership, strategy, consulting, marketing, and management courses since 2014. She is also an Adjunct at Ashridge Executive Education, Hult International Business School (UK), where she has completed coursework in the Executive Doctorate in Organization Change (PhD) program. Her research focuses on team formation and personal success, as well as the origins of tenacity and grit in women in leadership, and she has recently published business cases that explore consulting in the Middle East and mentoring women in developing countries. Her most recent research and publication, Women and Investing: Voices from MENA, was conducted in partnership with UBS Global Wealth Management.
Pamela holds a BA from Albany State (NY) and an MBA in International Business from The American University in Washington, DC, and has completed the Inner MBA program in partnership with MindfulNYU (New York University) and LinkedIn.
Professor of Business Administration
Laurens Debo’s research focuses on the consumer’s as well as the provider’s behavior in different service settings. On the consumer side, he investigated how strategic consumer behavior shapes the demand for services. On the supply side, Debo studied the management of “discretionary services,” services whose value to the consumer increases with the actual service time. Debo's research has appeared in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Management Science and Production and Operations Management, among other journals. Debo is a Professor of Operations Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He earned a PhD in Operations Management from INSEAD, France. Before joining the Tuck faculty, he was with the faculty of the Tepper School of Business of Carnegie Mellon University and the Booth School of Business of the University of Chicago. Debo is currently serving on the editorial board of Management Science, Production and Operations Management, Manufacturing Services and Operations Management and IIE Transactions. In the past, he frequently served as a judge of the MSOM student paper competition and received the 2008 and 2010 MSOM meritorious service awards.
Adjunct Professor
Aram M. Donigian is a visiting faculty member teaching Negotiation at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He received his undergraduate degree from the United States Military Academy at West Point and his MBA from Tuck. As a student at Tuck, he served as a Bridge Program Associate. Aram served in the U.S. Army for 21-years as an Infantry and Public Affairs officer, deploying three times to Afghanistan. He has taught management and leadership courses at both West Point and the Air Force Academy. Aram co-founded the West Point Negotiation Project and co-authored several articles on negotiation within the military context, including Extreme Negotiations published in the Harvard Business Review. Aram is also a Senior Trainer with Vantage Partners specializing in leadership, relationship management, critical thinking, and emotional intelligence. In addition to his work with corporate clients, he delivers training on strategic influence and negotiations for Navy SEAL Platoon Leaders. Aram lives in Enfield, NH with his wife and six kids.
Guest Lecturer
Ernie is a retired partner at Norwest Venture Partners where he worked as a venture capitalist for 23 years. He invested in over 50 early-stage companies in the software, semiconductor, communications, healthcare, education, and retail industries. He retired from NVP in 2007. Ernie Parizeau is currently a DCI Fellow at Stanford University and an Adjunct Professor of the Practice in Entrepreneurship at Middlebury College. He has taught entrepreneurship and investing courses at Middlebury, Babson College, and Franklin Olin College of Engineering. Ernie was the chair of The Cape Eleuthera Foundation from 2012-2017. CEF raises financial resources for three institutions founded by the same social entrepreneurs on the island of Eleuthera in The Bahamas: - The Island School - a challenging, three-month, experiential educational program for high school students from around the world, - The Cape Eleuthera Institute - a scientific research facility, and, - The Deep Creek Middle School - a private middle school educating Bahamian students. He continues to support the Cape Eleuthera Foundation as a board member and is an enthusiastic proponent of experiential education. He is also a member of the Dartmouth Entrepreneurship Network advisory board. Ernie graduated from Dartmouth College with an AB degree in Engineering Sciences (1979) and an MBA from Dartmouth’s Tuck School (1984). Ernie and his wife, Kim (TU ’84), have four children and one grandchild. For fun, Ernie rows, snowboards, and flys small planes.
Clinical Professor of Management
Courtney Pierson teaches Communication in Tuck’s MBA, Bridge, NextStep programs, and the TuckLAB: Entrepreneurship course Business Communication. She is actively involved with Tuck’s experiential learning courses as faculty advisor for student First Year Projects and the for the Paganucci Fellows Program, an eight-week internship for Dartmouth students interested in social entrepreneurship. Courtney graduated from Tuck in 2001 and, after several years at Bain & Company, returned to the media industry as head of strategy for a Blackstone portfolio company. During her 25+ year career, Courtney has held senior strategy, general management and operations positions in online media, direct marketing and ecommerce for organizations including Bloomberg L.P., McGraw-Hill and CBS Television.
Executive Director for Deans’ Office Special Projects; Adjunct Professor of Business Administration
Daniella Reichstetter is the executive director of Dean's Office Special Projects and an adjunct professor at the school. She has 20+ years of experience running various divisions of early-stage companies. She was the founder and CEO of Gyrobike (a Thayer technology), and an early hire at Method, Jetboil, and Belcampo. Prior to working in entrepreneurship, she worked as an investment banker in equity private placements. She serves on the boards of several early-stage companies and non-profit organizations, and she is an active angel investor.
Daniella graduated cum laude from Georgetown University with a BS in Spanish and business. She received her MBA from Tuck, where she was the recipient of the Arnold F. Adams, Jr. Award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship.
At Tuck, Daniella oversees the Tuck Compass program, coteaches Entrepreneurial Thinking and the Diversity Entrepreneurship Practicum, leads a Global Insight Expedition, serves as faculty adviser to various First-Year Project teams, and is the faculty director of TuckLAB Entrepreneurship. She was the founding executive director of the Tuck Center for Entrepreneurship.
Associate Director, Magnuson Center for Entrepreneurship
Barry Schweitzer, Ph.D. D’82 recently moved to the Magnuson Center from Dartmouth’s Technology Transfer Office, where he had been the Senior Business Development and Licensing Manager since 2019. He teaches the TuckLAB: Entrepreneurship Value Proposition course. Barry, whose family has had a home in the Upper Valley for 40 years, returned to Dartmouth after 20+ years of experience in management and leadership positions in the biotech industry. Prior to joining the TTO, he was a Venture Partner at Elm Street Ventures, a seed and early-stage venture capital firm based in New Haven, CT, where he led investments in the life sciences. He also served on the board of the Elm City Innovation Collaborative, an organization supported by the State of Connecticut to promote, connect, and enable New Haven’s diverse innovation ecosystem, and was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Yale University and the University of Connecticut. A serial entrepreneur, Barry was co-founder and CEO of Glygenix Therapeutics, Inc., a gene therapy company developing treatments for orphan diseases in children, and helped to start up two Yale biotech spin-off companies (Molecular Staging and Protometrix, Inc., acquired by Invitrogen Corporation.) He was previously an R&D leader at Life Technologies, Inc, and a Principal at BLS Partners LLC, a management consulting firm. Prior to entering the biotechnology industry, Barry was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Central Florida, a Leukemia Society Special Fellow in the Department of Pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine, and a post-doctoral fellow at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute after receiving his Ph.D. in Pharmacology from Yale. Barry was happy to return to Dartmouth where he received his bachelor’s degree in Biology. When he is not reading scientific publications on weekends he runs with his dogs, fly fishes or skis, and enjoys his new grandson.
Associate Professor
Morten Sorensen is an Associate Professor of Finance at Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College. Professor Sorensen has previously been on the faculty at University of Chicago, Columbia Business School, Copenhagen Business School and a Faculty Research Fellow at Center of Economic Policy Research and National Bureau of Economic Research. He teaches TuckLAB: Entrepreneurship's Entrepreneurial Finance course. Professor Sorensen's research is about Entrepreneurial Finance, Venture Capital, and Private Equity. His research focuses on understanding the behavior, performance, and economic effects of venture capital and private equity investments both for individual transactions and in the broader economy. He has studied the risks, returns, and illiquidity inherent in venture capital, private equity, and other alternative investments; the effects of private equity and venture capital investments on the individual companies and for the industries where they are active; and the role of managers in private equity deals. His research has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, Bloomberg, CNBC, The Economist, and BusinessWeek. It has been published in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, and Management Science. Professor Sorensen teaches Entrepreneurial Finance. He has advised PhD students who have joined the faculty at Stanford, Cornell, Wharton, New York University, UC-Berkeley and London School of Economics. He has been an academic advisor to the European Venture Capital Association and an expert witness in litigation involving private equity firms and other financial organizations. Morten is married and has two daughters. He was born in Denmark where he received a master's degree in economics from Aarhus University. He moved to the United States in 1999 where he received a PhD in Economics from Stanford University. In 2020 he joined the faculty at Tuck School of Business. He lives with his family and a Goldendoodle in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Faculty Director, Glassmeyer/McNamee Center for Digital Strategies; Associate Professor of Business Administration
Alva Taylor teaches TuckLAB: Entrepreneurship's Product Development course. Taylor's research focuses on the innovation process, entrepreneurship, technological change, and strategic decision-making in fast-changing environments. Some of Prof. Taylor's recent work has been on the challenge of managing creative groups for sustained innovation and entrepreneurship; and how organizational learning takes place in information-rich environments. He teaches courses on strategy in fast-changing environments, managing innovation, and managing change in both the Tuck MBA and Executive Education programs. Prof. Taylor has also designed and is program director of the Digital Excellence for Minority Entrepreneurs Executive Education Program in partnership with Google. Prior to academia, Prof. Taylor was a senior manager in the consulting division of KPMG, running a practice focusing on business strategy, information technology, and growing companies to scale.
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Ramon Lecuona is an assistant professor of business administration in Tuck’s strategy group. He earned his PhD in business administration at the London Business School and a Masters of Public Policy at Harvard University. Before joining Tuck, he was part of the faculty at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Prior to that, Ramon served as a staff member of the Office of the President of Mexico for more than seven years. His academic research is focused on the design of organizational structures that make firms more productive and innovative, and he has specific expertise in the field of mobile communications and the offshoring of production facilities to emerging markets. In addition to his academic work, Professor Lecuona has been part of the founding team of multiple start-ups and serves as an adviser for senior leaders of multinational companies and governmental agencies. He teaches Tuck’s core strategy course.
Clinical Professor of Business
Curtis R. Welling D'71, T'77 is a clinical professor of business who teaches courses at the intersection on business, society and government. He teaches the TuckLAB: Entrepreneurship Social Entrepreneurship course. Prior to Tuck Professor Welling served as the president and chief executive officer of AmeriCares for 11 years, guiding the organization in delivering $9 billion in medicines and supplies around the world. Prior to AmeriCares Professor Welling worked in the investment banking and securities industries for 25 years. He teaches classes on Impact Investing, Social Entrepreneurship, Business and Society.
Nathaniel D’1906 and Martha E. Leverone Memorial Professor of Business Administration
Ron Adner is The Nathaniel D’1906 and Martha E. Leverone Memorial Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Prior to joining Tuck, he was the Akzo-Nobel Fellow of Strategic Management at INSEAD, where he served on the faculty for ten years. Dr. Adner’s award-winning research introduces a new perspective on the relationship between firms, customers, and the broader ‘innovation ecosystems’ in which they interact to create value. His book, The Wide Lens: What Successful Innovators See that Others Miss, has been heralded as a path-breaking guide to successful innovation in an interdependent world. Among other honors, it was named a Best Business Book of the Year by Strategy+Business. Dr. Adner has held editorial and board positions in the leading peer-reviewed academic journals of his field, including the Academy of Management Review, Management Science, the Strategic Management Journal, and Strategy Science. He has published numerous articles in these and other top academic journals. His managerial articles have been published in outlets including the Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, Fast Company, Forbes, Wired, The Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal.
Guest Lecturer
Professor Campagna balances consulting with global clients, volunteer work, and academic teaching. She is the President of BLUE SAGE Consulting, Inc. a certified women-owned management consulting firm founded in 1997, where she specializes in global strategy, business optimization & resource development. Prior to founding BLUE SAGE, Professor Campagna developed her craft during fifteen years of work in software and technology companies in marketing, sales, operations, business development, and consulting roles.
Professor Campagna contributes to the consulting profession as a board member and chair of the Marketing Committee of CMC-Global Institute, a virtual global community for professional management consultants. She is also a Certified Management Consultant (CMC®), representing global standards in consulting competencies, professional behavior, and ethics.
Professor Campagna believes that learning extends from the field into the classroom, and back again. She has taught and facilitated graduate, undergraduate, and executive education courses in marketing, leadership, sales management, business and communications, strategy, and project management in more than 750 corporate and educational settings, including Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College; Boston College’s Carroll School of Management; Northeastern University, Bryant University, and Boston University. She is currently a Professor of Practice at HULT International Business School in Cambridge, MA where she has been teaching leadership, strategy, consulting, marketing, and management courses since 2014. She is also an Adjunct at Ashridge Executive Education, Hult International Business School (UK), where she has completed coursework in the Executive Doctorate in Organization Change (PhD) program. Her research focuses on team formation and personal success, as well as the origins of tenacity and grit in women in leadership, and she has recently published business cases that explore consulting in the Middle East and mentoring women in developing countries. Her most recent research and publication, Women and Investing: Voices from MENA, was conducted in partnership with UBS Global Wealth Management.
Pamela holds a BA from Albany State (NY) and an MBA in International Business from The American University in Washington, DC, and has completed the Inner MBA program in partnership with MindfulNYU (New York University) and LinkedIn.
Professor of Business Administration
Laurens Debo’s research focuses on the consumer’s as well as the provider’s behavior in different service settings. On the consumer side, he investigated how strategic consumer behavior shapes the demand for services. On the supply side, Debo studied the management of “discretionary services,” services whose value to the consumer increases with the actual service time. Debo's research has appeared in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Management Science and Production and Operations Management, among other journals. Debo is a Professor of Operations Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He earned a PhD in Operations Management from INSEAD, France. Before joining the Tuck faculty, he was with the faculty of the Tepper School of Business of Carnegie Mellon University and the Booth School of Business of the University of Chicago. Debo is currently serving on the editorial board of Management Science, Production and Operations Management, Manufacturing Services and Operations Management and IIE Transactions. In the past, he frequently served as a judge of the MSOM student paper competition and received the 2008 and 2010 MSOM meritorious service awards.
Adjunct Professor
Aram M. Donigian is a visiting faculty member teaching Negotiation at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He received his undergraduate degree from the United States Military Academy at West Point and his MBA from Tuck. As a student at Tuck, he served as a Bridge Program Associate. Aram served in the U.S. Army for 21-years as an Infantry and Public Affairs officer, deploying three times to Afghanistan. He has taught management and leadership courses at both West Point and the Air Force Academy. Aram co-founded the West Point Negotiation Project and co-authored several articles on negotiation within the military context, including Extreme Negotiations published in the Harvard Business Review. Aram is also a Senior Trainer with Vantage Partners specializing in leadership, relationship management, critical thinking, and emotional intelligence. In addition to his work with corporate clients, he delivers training on strategic influence and negotiations for Navy SEAL Platoon Leaders. Aram lives in Enfield, NH with his wife and six kids.
Associate Professor of Business Administration
Daniel C. Feiler is an associate professor at the Tuck School of Business in the Strategy & Management group. He is a behavioral scientist and his research explores the psychology of judgment and decision making and the role it plays in organizational behavior and management science. He has won paper and presentation awards at the Academy of Management conference, Behavioral Decision Research in Management conference, and Max Planck Institute for Human Development summer conference. His work has received popular press coverage in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, New York Magazine, Mic, and Fast Company, among others. Drawing on his expertise in behavioral science, he teaches a popular MBA elective course, Negotiations. He was selected by the Tuck MBA Class of 2015 for the Excellence in Teaching Award, representing the first time a junior faculty member was selected for that award at Tuck. In 2017, he was selected as one of the Top 40 Business School Professors Under 40 years old by Poets and Quants. His work has been published in Management Science and Psychological Science, as well as in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and Production and Operations Management. He is originally from Pittsburgh, PA and received his doctoral degree from Duke
Senior Fellow with the Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society
Liana is a Fellow with the Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society, focused on the intersection of innovation, energy and climate solutions. Partnering with the Magnuson Center, she is working to launch an accelerator for start-ups addressing climate change and the energy transition. Her role is to help build an ecosystem around climate innovation by partnering internally across Dartmouth and externally with leading entrepreneurs, corporations, thinkers, capital providers, and alumni. Liana has worked with many sustainable start-ups through her work with Greentown Labs, Techstars, and other accelerators. She teaches "Sustainable Marketing" at the Tuck School of Business and University of Texas McCombs School of Business. Earlier in her career, Liana was a technology executive. She was one of the founders of dell.com and helped build Dell's ecommerce channel into a multi-billion-dollar business. She became the general manager of Dell's ecommerce channel and was responsible for digital innovation globally. Post- Dell, she was on the leadership team of several technology start-ups, focused on creating new markets or taking advantage of market shifts. Liana is a Dartmouth and Tuck alumna.
Academic Director for the Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society
Amanda Graham is the Academic Director for the Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society at Dartmouth College. In this role, her priorities are to engage all members of the Dartmouth community, to expand understanding of the fundamental roles energy systems play in society, and to partner with students, faculty, and alumni to evolve those systems toward a more just and sustainable world. Prior to Dartmouth, Amanda served in several roles at MIT, including Executive Director of the Environmental Solutions Initiative and Education Director for the MIT Energy Initiative. At MIT she led the development of multidisciplinary curricula and co-curricula in energy studies and environment and sustainability, including undergraduate minors, programs for first-year and graduate students, and intensive educational experiences with international students. Amanda is a founding member of the Committee on Energy, Equity, and Justice of the University Energy Institutes Coalition and a member of the organizing committee for the Community of Educators for Energy Transitions within the Global Council for Science and the Environment.
Senior Associate Dean for Advancement and Tuck-Dartmouth Programs; Charles Henry Jones Third Century Professor of Management
Punam Keller is Senior Associate Dean for Advancement and Tuck-Dartmouth Programs, Faculty Director of the Center for Business, Government, and Society, and the Charles Henry Jones Professor of Marketing at the Tuck School of Business. Her primary administrative responsibilities are to create and find funding for new programs. Professor Keller teaches Social Marketing and Cause Marketing in the MBA program. Her research focuses on Consumer decision-making in the health, wealth, and sustainability domains. She works with Government agencies (e.g., CDC, US Department of Treasury), companies (e.g., CVS Health, Blackrock), foundations (NEFE, OECD) and Committees (e.g., Levy Health Cluster) to help them attain collective well-being goals. She is currently on a national board (GTMRx) to create vaccine health communications and health communities, and is working on several health research projects funded by NIH.
Program Manager of the Energy Justice Clinic, Irving Institute of Energy & Society
Sarah Kelly is a geographer with fifteen years of experience in community-based research on water and energy equity. As an applied researcher, she was trained in the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology at the University of Arizona. Sarah holds long-term research relationships with Mapuche-Williche communities in Chile, where she has investigated hydropower, cultural cartography, and Indigenous rights. In 2021, she co-founded the Energy Justice Clinic at Dartmouth College. Originally from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Sarah is excited to expand upon local collaborations in New Hampshire and Vermont to support making the energy transition more just and accessible for all. Sarah's research is published in Energy Policy, Energy Research and Social Science, and Geoforum, among other journals.
Revers Professor of Business Administration; Faculty Director, Revers Center for Energy, Sustainability and Innovation; Area Chair, Economics
Erin Mansur is an economist whose research focuses on topics of energy economics, environmental economics, and industrial organization. He teaches classes on energy economics. Current research examines the labor market implications of hydrofracturing, the environmental effects of electric cars, how natural gas prices affect electricity markets, and how mergers affect competition in electricity markets. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
Hodgson Family Assistant Professor of Engineering
Dr. Erin Mayfield is the Hodgson Family Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College in the Thayer School of Engineering. Her research is in the areas of sustainable systems engineering and public policy. Dr. Mayfield focuses on three interacting research themes - multiobjective modeling, intergenerational & social equity, and climate mitigation & adaptation planning. The aim of her research is to develop computational decision support tools to address real-world problems and facilitate multi-stakeholder decision-making processes.
Mayfield has participated in several large-scale collaborations on infrastructure transitions, including the Net-Zero America Project and the REPEAT Project, and currently serves as a co-author of the Fifth National Climate Assessment. Her research is regularly covered in national and local media such as the New York Times, The Atlantic, and National Public Radio. Mayfield has received several awards for her research such as the Rob Socolow Best Paper Award, American Chemical Society Editor's Choice Award, and the Herbert L. Toor Doctoral Research Award.
Prior to academia, Mayfield was a practitioner working with and in vulnerable communities on hazardous waste remediation, environmental litigation, and infrastructure planning. She has also held positions at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Congress, Princeton University, and Environmental Law Institute. She received her doctoral degree in engineering and public policy from Carnegie Mellon University, masters in environmental engineering from Johns Hopkins University, and bachelors in environmental science from Rutgers University.
Associate Professor of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College
My overarching research objective is to understand how and why climate has changed and identify trends and sources of air pollution. My specialty is creating long (50-50,000 years) records of climate change and air pollution by analyzing chemical markers preserved in glacier ice cores. I also study data from weather stations and climate models to determine recent climate trends to differentiate natural cycles from human-caused changes. I am particularly interested in aspects of climate change that impact communities, including sea-level rise from melting glaciers, and the changing number and intensity of storms.
Guest Lecturer
Ernie is a retired partner at Norwest Venture Partners where he worked as a venture capitalist for 23 years. He invested in over 50 early-stage companies in the software, semiconductor, communications, healthcare, education, and retail industries. He retired from NVP in 2007. Ernie Parizeau is currently a DCI Fellow at Stanford University and an Adjunct Professor of the Practice in Entrepreneurship at Middlebury College. He has taught entrepreneurship and investing courses at Middlebury, Babson College, and Franklin Olin College of Engineering. Ernie was the chair of The Cape Eleuthera Foundation from 2012-2017. CEF raises financial resources for three institutions founded by the same social entrepreneurs on the island of Eleuthera in The Bahamas: - The Island School - a challenging, three-month, experiential educational program for high school students from around the world, - The Cape Eleuthera Institute - a scientific research facility, and, - The Deep Creek Middle School - a private middle school educating Bahamian students. He continues to support the Cape Eleuthera Foundation as a board member and is an enthusiastic proponent of experiential education. He is also a member of the Dartmouth Entrepreneurship Network advisory board. Ernie graduated from Dartmouth College with an AB degree in Engineering Sciences (1979) and an MBA from Dartmouth’s Tuck School (1984). Ernie and his wife, Kim (TU ’84), have four children and one grandchild. For fun, Ernie rows, snowboards, and flys small planes.
Clinical Professor of Management
Courtney Pierson teaches Communication in Tuck’s MBA, Bridge, NextStep programs, and the TuckLAB: Entrepreneurship course Business Communication. She is actively involved with Tuck’s experiential learning courses as faculty advisor for student First Year Projects and the for the Paganucci Fellows Program, an eight-week internship for Dartmouth students interested in social entrepreneurship. Courtney graduated from Tuck in 2001 and, after several years at Bain & Company, returned to the media industry as head of strategy for a Blackstone portfolio company. During her 25+ year career, Courtney has held senior strategy, general management and operations positions in online media, direct marketing and ecommerce for organizations including Bloomberg L.P., McGraw-Hill and CBS Television.
CEO, NYCEEC
Curtis Probst is CEO of NYCEEC. He joined NYCEEC in April 2018 as its Co-CEO, and previously served on its Board since 2015. Curtis works with the entire NYCEEC team to implement its mission: to deliver financing solutions and advance markets for energy efficiency and clean energy in buildings. He is proud to help NYCEEC, the first local green bank in the US, pursue its vision: energy efficiency and clean energy financing for buildings to achieve scale and be accessible to all. Prior to joining NYCEEC, Curtis worked for over three years as a Managing Director at Rocky Mountain Institute, a global energy think tank, leading their sustainable finance practice. Curtis previously worked at Goldman Sachs for over 15 years, most recently as a Managing Director in their investment banking division. Before joining Goldman Sachs, Probst worked at Salomon Brothers for over eight years, most recently as a Vice President in their structured and project finance group. Curtis serves, or has served, on the boards of various organizations with an energy or environmental focus. Additionally, he has been an adjunct faculty member at Columbia University since 2016, lecturing on the topic of clean energy finance. He has spoken at numerous conferences in the United States, Canada and Europe, and authored or co-authored reports on different energy and financing topics. Curtis received a BComm from the University of Calgary and an MPA from Columbia University. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst, and a member of the CFA Institute.
Executive Director for Deans’ Office Special Projects; Adjunct Professor of Business Administration
Daniella Reichstetter is the executive director of Dean's Office Special Projects and an adjunct professor at the school. She has 20+ years of experience running various divisions of early-stage companies. She was the founder and CEO of Gyrobike (a Thayer technology), and an early hire at Method, Jetboil, and Belcampo. Prior to working in entrepreneurship, she worked as an investment banker in equity private placements. She serves on the boards of several early-stage companies and non-profit organizations, and she is an active angel investor.
Daniella graduated cum laude from Georgetown University with a BS in Spanish and business. She received her MBA from Tuck, where she was the recipient of the Arnold F. Adams, Jr. Award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship.
At Tuck, Daniella oversees the Tuck Compass program, coteaches Entrepreneurial Thinking and the Diversity Entrepreneurship Practicum, leads a Global Insight Expedition, serves as faculty adviser to various First-Year Project teams, and is the faculty director of TuckLAB Entrepreneurship. She was the founding executive director of the Tuck Center for Entrepreneurship.
Associate Director, Magnuson Center for Entrepreneurship
Barry Schweitzer, Ph.D. D’82 recently moved to the Magnuson Center from Dartmouth’s Technology Transfer Office, where he had been the Senior Business Development and Licensing Manager since 2019. He teaches the TuckLAB: Entrepreneurship Value Proposition course. Barry, whose family has had a home in the Upper Valley for 40 years, returned to Dartmouth after 20+ years of experience in management and leadership positions in the biotech industry. Prior to joining the TTO, he was a Venture Partner at Elm Street Ventures, a seed and early-stage venture capital firm based in New Haven, CT, where he led investments in the life sciences. He also served on the board of the Elm City Innovation Collaborative, an organization supported by the State of Connecticut to promote, connect, and enable New Haven’s diverse innovation ecosystem, and was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Yale University and the University of Connecticut. A serial entrepreneur, Barry was co-founder and CEO of Glygenix Therapeutics, Inc., a gene therapy company developing treatments for orphan diseases in children, and helped to start up two Yale biotech spin-off companies (Molecular Staging and Protometrix, Inc., acquired by Invitrogen Corporation.) He was previously an R&D leader at Life Technologies, Inc, and a Principal at BLS Partners LLC, a management consulting firm. Prior to entering the biotechnology industry, Barry was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Central Florida, a Leukemia Society Special Fellow in the Department of Pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine, and a post-doctoral fellow at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute after receiving his Ph.D. in Pharmacology from Yale. Barry was happy to return to Dartmouth where he received his bachelor’s degree in Biology. When he is not reading scientific publications on weekends he runs with his dogs, fly fishes or skis, and enjoys his new grandson.
Associate Professor
Morten Sorensen is an Associate Professor of Finance at Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College. Professor Sorensen has previously been on the faculty at University of Chicago, Columbia Business School, Copenhagen Business School and a Faculty Research Fellow at Center of Economic Policy Research and National Bureau of Economic Research. He teaches TuckLAB: Entrepreneurship's Entrepreneurial Finance course. Professor Sorensen's research is about Entrepreneurial Finance, Venture Capital, and Private Equity. His research focuses on understanding the behavior, performance, and economic effects of venture capital and private equity investments both for individual transactions and in the broader economy. He has studied the risks, returns, and illiquidity inherent in venture capital, private equity, and other alternative investments; the effects of private equity and venture capital investments on the individual companies and for the industries where they are active; and the role of managers in private equity deals. His research has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, Bloomberg, CNBC, The Economist, and BusinessWeek. It has been published in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, and Management Science. Professor Sorensen teaches Entrepreneurial Finance. He has advised PhD students who have joined the faculty at Stanford, Cornell, Wharton, New York University, UC-Berkeley and London School of Economics. He has been an academic advisor to the European Venture Capital Association and an expert witness in litigation involving private equity firms and other financial organizations. Morten is married and has two daughters. He was born in Denmark where he received a master's degree in economics from Aarhus University. He moved to the United States in 1999 where he received a PhD in Economics from Stanford University. In 2020 he joined the faculty at Tuck School of Business. He lives with his family and a Goldendoodle in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Instructional Assistant Professor of Engineering, Dartmouth
Rafe Steinhauer is an instructional assistant professor of engineering at Dartmouth. His professional mission is to help people co-create more just, joyful, and sustainable societies. At Dartmouth, Rafe teaches sections of ENGS 12 - Design Thinking, and co-teaches ENGS 89/90, the BE capstone course. He is most interested in the future of higher education, and he started Range and Radar because he mentors several former students who, in their individual way, are grappling with common questions.
Faculty Director, Glassmeyer/McNamee Center for Digital Strategies; Associate Professor of Business Administration
Alva Taylor teaches TuckLAB: Entrepreneurship's Product Development course. Taylor's research focuses on the innovation process, entrepreneurship, technological change, and strategic decision-making in fast-changing environments. Some of Prof. Taylor's recent work has been on the challenge of managing creative groups for sustained innovation and entrepreneurship; and how organizational learning takes place in information-rich environments. He teaches courses on strategy in fast-changing environments, managing innovation, and managing change in both the Tuck MBA and Executive Education programs. Prof. Taylor has also designed and is program director of the Digital Excellence for Minority Entrepreneurs Executive Education Program in partnership with Google. Prior to academia, Prof. Taylor was a senior manager in the consulting division of KPMG, running a practice focusing on business strategy, information technology, and growing companies to scale.
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Ramon Lecuona is an assistant professor of business administration in Tuck’s strategy group. He earned his PhD in business administration at the London Business School and a Masters of Public Policy at Harvard University. Before joining Tuck, he was part of the faculty at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Prior to that, Ramon served as a staff member of the Office of the President of Mexico for more than seven years. His academic research is focused on the design of organizational structures that make firms more productive and innovative, and he has specific expertise in the field of mobile communications and the offshoring of production facilities to emerging markets. In addition to his academic work, Professor Lecuona has been part of the founding team of multiple start-ups and serves as an adviser for senior leaders of multinational companies and governmental agencies. He teaches Tuck’s core strategy course.
Clinical Professor of Business
Curtis R. Welling D'71, T'77 is a clinical professor of business who teaches courses at the intersection on business, society and government. He teaches the TuckLAB: Entrepreneurship Social Entrepreneurship course. Prior to Tuck Professor Welling served as the president and chief executive officer of AmeriCares for 11 years, guiding the organization in delivering $9 billion in medicines and supplies around the world. Prior to AmeriCares Professor Welling worked in the investment banking and securities industries for 25 years. He teaches classes on Impact Investing, Social Entrepreneurship, Business and Society.
